A couple of weeks ago I published a list of words that members of the Smart Dublin Advisory Network felt represented qualities they hoped Smart Dublin would fulfil.  At a recent meeting about a proposed Smart Docklands initiative attendees were asked to perform the same task – use one word to describe a desirable quality for the area/initiative.  Here is that list of aspiration words:

Co-creation                  Innovation                  Collaboration
Best practice               Showcase                    Testbed
Quality of Life             Community                 Engagement
Smart energy              Telecoms                     Internet of Things
Data                              Open                            Bright
Intelligent                    Optimized                    Autonomous system
Sustainability              Safety                           Resource efficient
Industry                       Startups                       Opportunity
Alignment                    Integrated                   Deploy and forget
Electricity                     Battery                         Energy
Connectivity                Smart mobility

While there is some overlap in the lists, it’s interesting to note the differences between the aspirations expressed at the two meetings.

Here are the words in the Smart Dublin list that are not in the Smart Docklands one:

Networking, Collaborative, Cooperation, Sharing, People, Well-being, Accessible, Diversity, Insight, Problem-solving, Strategic, Joined-up, Agile, Transformative, Future-proofing, International, Socio-technical, Curiosity, Easy

And here are the words in the Smart Docklands list not in the Smart Dublin one:

Co-creation, Best practice, Showcase, Smart energy, Telecoms, Internet of Things, Open, Bright, Intelligent, Optimized, Autonomous system, Resource efficient, Industry, Opportunity, Alignment, Deploy and forget, Electricity, Battery, Energy, Smart mobility

And here is the overlap:

Innovation, Collaboration, Testbed, Quality of Life, Community, Engagement, Data, Sustainability, Safety, Startups, Integrated, Connectivity

Perhaps not unsurprisingly the Smart Docklands list has more economic aspirations, but does still contain ambitions concerning community, engagement, quality of life and sustainability.  Adding the two list together, I sense, provides a kind of ‘smart city bingo’ – a full house of smart city goals.

Thanks for Jamie Cudden and Réka Pétercsák for compiling and sending the Smart Docklands list to me.

Rob Kitchin